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Happy New Year – Where I’m From – 2017 Edition

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I really like this poem prompt and it has a lot of room for creativity. Once a year in January, I’m going to do the prompt again and post it to the blog to see where I’m from that year that might be different from the year before or the year after.

From the speaking tour of Scotland Grandfather Brown made as a Canadian MP to encourage immigration from places like Dundee, the letters written home to the first Catherine Cameron, and the plaid that lives on as Uncle Carl’s favorite color.

I am from family pictures on the computer, family films in Florida, ancestral papers in libraries and homes.

The joy of shared memories, the stories of the family, and the time spent with grandmothers who share it all with me.

The link to the past that I’ll never experience but always know and the history that helped create me.

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2017 will be a great year for all of us.